Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13079

Name

Desulfoluna Suzuki et al. 2008

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Desulfolunaceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Desulfoluna butyratoxydans Suzuki et al. 2008
species	Desulfoluna spongiiphila Ahn et al. 2009

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfobacteria Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfolunaceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Desulfoluna Suzuki et al. 2008

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Desulfoluna Suzuki et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13079.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13079.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 2, 2020.

References

Suzuki D, Ueki A, Amaishi A, Ueki K. Desulfoluna butyratoxydans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Gram-negative, butyrate-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from an estuarine sediment in Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:826-832. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65306-0 [PubMed].
Ahn Y-B, Kerkhof LJ, Häggblom MM. Desulfoluna spongiiphila sp. nov., a dehalogenating bacterium in the Desulfobacteraceae from the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2133-2139. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.005884-0 [PubMed].
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].